Yuji Horii Quotes
When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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I work very hard at my game.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
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I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it was like people wanted to stone me, it was that bad. People thought of video games as kind of a bad thing in society. Now, people that come to interview me, they have grown up with video games, and they know what they are; they've experienced it.
